What the… Is it 2004 again? About fucking time. I could never forget them for giving up on it the last time around.
HTTP Live Streaming is in a way very symbolic of the way large sites scale, and of the line of new tools available for web development. QuickTime streaming depended on persistent connections and being fed data. I think eventually they just ran out of servers to serve their audience. HTTP Live Streaming is just about delivering and fetching files at a fast clip (every nth second). There are some very fast servers to do that (the web constantly revolves around this working already) and it requires much less involvement, or should I say entanglement, for the server. It’s up to the client to sort out the “session” or “state”, and the server is just a source of data. Rather that than having a tap where the server can’t skip streaming data and the client can’t skip receiving data.
The RFC has all the intimate details.
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